Bush’s “verbal dexterity”
Looks like Dumbya cannot hold his tongue together on more than one occasion… Technorati Tags: George Bush APEC Dumbya Dubya verbal diarrhoea stupidity video
Monthly Archives: September 2007
How the ax falls, Filipino-style
According to a colleague of mine, the following is apparently an “ISO-certified” practice of eliminating redundancies in an organisation in the Philippines: — 48 hours before shutting down the operation, SWAT teams in janitorial disguise conduct metal detector/security checks in the premises. — 24 hours before shutting down the operation, maintenance is instructed to ship… Read More »
Have your cake and eat it, indeed!
An Iraqi-flag cake served to visiting US Congressmen The above photo and caption from FORTUNE magazine (“Mission Impossible“, 17 September 2007) struck me as pretty symbolic in the way Iraq has been treated by the invaders. Like the cake, the country has basically been divided and gobbled up by Republican hawks who have been eyeing… Read More »
Why it pays to learn a foreign language
If you’re not bilingual, get someone to translate this for you.
How to be a good writer
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More Bushisms
“Russia’s big and so is China.”– George W. Bush, G-8 summit, 17 July 2006 “And so, in my State of the — my State of the Union — or state — my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation — I asked Americans to give 4,000 years —… Read More »